Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Calis Beach Questions and Information => Topic started by: chris35 on July 05, 2015, 12:09:39 PM
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I for one like my food brought to me by a waiter wearing an asbestos glove. Am I the only one who hates hot food brought out to the table on COLD plates. Apart from JH.
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Totally agree chris35 :)
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Yes, must admit I like hot food to be hot and be able to take my time eating it without rushing before it goes cold!
Hot plates for hot food for me too! :)
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Should always be hot plates for hot food, and if the plates are too hot, put a cloth napkin under it. ;)
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I too like my meal served on a hot plate and I never eat rice that is only warm ??? asking for trouble.
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Hate food on cold plates, always feel I have to rush to eat it, as I also hate food that has gone cold. Always hot up plates when we eat at home.
Often order sizzling dishes in Calis just so the food keep hot until I finish it.
So, lets have a list of places that serve food on hot plates. I am scratching my head to think of any where we usually eat ??
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Pasha Kebap do hot plates but prob only on certain dishes.
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As I said previously, so do the new Indian restaurant, Curry Palace.
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I prefer my food cold as I don't have an asbestos mouth, so cold plates are fine by me 8)
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Sorry, but cold plates then hot food equal cold food. No need for an asbestos mouth, food cools very quickly outdoors in Turkey. By the time you finish eating your food is stone cold. but hey if this is what you like, you could be in the minority.
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Plates are hot in Casa Da Mamma's,I have tried to touch them many times and still keep forgetting how hot they are.
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If you look at recipes for traditional Turkish cuisine, most dishes are served at room temperature not hot. So the concept of hot plates may be a little lost on them...
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Yes, but traditional Turkish Cuisine may be served at room temperature but I think a lot of Brits would like their traditional Turkish steak and chips to be served on a hot plate. :)
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Yes, but traditional Turkish Cuisine may be served at room temperature but I think a lot of Brits would like their traditional Turkish steak and chips to be served on a hot plate. :)
With rice and salad !!
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Yes, but traditional Turkish Cuisine may be served at room temperature but I think a lot of Brits would like their traditional Turkish steak and chips to be served on a hot plate. :)
With rice and salad !!
Would that be hot or cold rice & salad, Gordon?
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Sorry, but cold plates then hot food equal cold food. No need for an asbestos mouth, food cools very quickly outdoors in Turkey. By the time you finish eating your food is stone cold. but hey if this is what you like, you could be in the minority.
Having been "in the minority" all my life means I'm Special :)
Even when the food is supposed to be hot I will leave it until it is cool (or what others may call cold) my wife often finishes her meals before I start mine when we are out and at home my food goes in the fridge after cooking & until it cools ;)
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A friend of mine has to put her dinner in the microwave to heat up for a bit before sitting down to eat as, by the time she's finished dishing it up, it's started to go cold and not hot enough for her! ;D
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It really puzzles me why people insist on having their food & drink so hot that they have to sit there blowing on it until they are cool enough to consume! ???
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If you look at recipes for traditional Turkish cuisine, most dishes are served at room temperature not hot. So the concept of hot plates may be a little lost on them...
When I first travelled Europe it was as a hitch-hiker and thus visited unexpected and out-of-the-way places. They might be called "traditional". I didn't get to Turkey back then but did hitch-hike through Greece where the cuisine is very much like Turkey's - unsurprisingly since the Ottomans and Greeks lived alongside each other for so many centuries. I have to agree with Philrose; in the two summers I travelled across Greece I never had what a Brit would call "a hot meal". Of course, in today's Turkish restaurants that aim at British trade then hot meals on hot plates might give a competitive advantage.
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Cooking food and serving it hot tends to kill bacteria so another good reason to have hot food and hot plates.
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It's a wonder how the populations of Turkey and Greece managed to survive thousands of year of not doing that.
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It's a wonder how the populations of Turkey and Greece managed to survive thousands of year of not doing that.
Who cares not relevent. I think there are very many British people both able bodied and in particular elderly and vulnerable, who would not want to get food poisoning on their holidays, no matter how long the native population have been eating cool food and probably built up a resistance to the bacteria it contains. ;) :o :( >:( :angel:
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I cant understand why in a Chinese restaurant in Hisaronu they bring you hot plates and put them in front of you for 5 mins so they have gone cold by the time the food comes.
I also dislike wooden platters (hot or cold) ;)
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I also dislike wooden platters (hot or cold) ;)
Withyou on that one Bewva, we don't go out to restaurants that often, but when we do I always ask that food listed as being served on a wooden platter is served on crockery.
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Jacqui,
Cold or cool food does not contain bacteria if it has been cooked properly first.
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Jacqui,
Cold or cool food does not contain bacteria if it has been cooked properly first.
Oh yes it does Even if food is cooked properly . If food is stored or served between 5 -60 centigrade bacteria develops . When serving a buffet food should not be left for more than 2hrs to stand
Food should be served above 60 centigrade or below 5 centigrade.
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Jacqui,
Cold or cool food does not contain bacteria if it has been cooked properly first.
Even if food is cooked adequately ( between 75c -82c)Food should be served above 60c or below 5c
or bacteria develops .Food should never be left to stand in temperatures between 5c -60c for more that 2hrs.
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whoops :-[ posted twice I thought the first one had not posted
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True Patrice, this is the reason friends of mine staying at Sharm in a 5 Star Hotel both got food poisoning. The food was cooked and then put into hot trays on counters for the guests to help themselves, however, the trays where not hot enough and the food lay too long and had cooled down. Both of my friends were very ill as were others who ate that night, and my lady friend had to stay in hospital and be put on a drip.
I am surprise that three likes appeared immediatley, (well not surprised at one it is the usual). Do people not think these things out first, or are they just happy to get one over on me ? :o :(
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Spot on Jacqui; Unfortunate for your friends but this what happens when food stands to long.
I avoid buffets at all cost unless I have prepared it myself or confident of the person or persons who did.
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Jacqui - I wondered what I'd said before you edited your post! ;)
However, as someone who once contracted salmonella poisoning at a large hotel in Ibiza some years ago I agree totally with patrice. This was a hotel which served all their meals buffet style so if you weren't early down to dinner you had no idea how long the food had been left standing.
Obviously this happens a lot in big hotels and if the food is properly cooked, and kept at the correct temperature, and not for hours on end, all should be ok.
I know it was the hotel because loads of the guests went down with the same symptoms within 24 hours of each other and when they didn't clear a few days after returning home I went to the doc's and got checked out to find it was salmonella. Not very nice :( Nor was the flight home with a few fellow sufferers on board! :o
I also try to avoid large buffet style meals if I can and like my meals freshly cooked and hot!
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Sorry Marina, I have a cold today and running a temperature, so got the names mixed up.
This also happen at my husband's workplace about 15 years ago. They had caterers in and luckily for my husband he was away that day, but everyone was ill and a few of his friends ended up in the hospital. I also would not eat buffet food and especially somewhere abroad that does not have the same Health and Safety as we do in the U.K.
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No worries Jacqui, hope the cold's better soon :)
Yes, unfortunately food poisoning is no laughing matter, especially when it is severe enough to be fatal which can happen especially to the very young and elderly.
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Jacqui,
Cold or cool food does not contain bacteria if it has been cooked properly first.
Even if food is cooked adequately ( between 75c -82c)Food should be served above 60c or below 5c
or bacteria develops .Food should never be left to stand in temperatures between 5c -60c for more that 2hrs.
Thought this topic was about which restaurants served hot food on hot plates, not about how long food should be left at inappropriate temperatures -itself, a very serious topic. :)
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Jacqui,
Cold or cool food does not contain bacteria if it has been cooked properly first.
Yes a very serious subject Sadler
This is the reason I commented on food bacteria .I thought it worrying that nick11 seemed to be unaware of potential risks to health if food is not prepared or served at the correct temperatures.I am not a expert but I do deliver Food Hygiene awareness.
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Patrice WAS following the thread and put right a wrong statement about bacteria in food. However, I wonder, why people think they need to Police threads and make sure the threads do not veer off the subject?
I am sure Scunner and the moderators can do this without extra help.
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Yes most threads veer off the subject but to me this is what makes a thread interesting it also leads to other interesting topics .....whoops done it again veered off the subject ;)sorry sadler ;)
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;)
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....is it not considered highly impolite in Turkey to serve food to hot to consume?